Why do we want to protect life in protecting endangered species from extinction?

Question

Why do we strive to artificially protect "biodiversity" against the harmful effects of civilization? Environmentalists, why shouldn't natural selection decide which genes are fit for survival? Why do we want to preserve "gene pools" even though it's obvious that pandas and tigers have succumbed to the human supremacy? It's about time it clashed with other species trying to survive. Isn't it naive to suppose we can save both ourselves and our natural competitors?

Answer 1

Some of the endangered species are necessary to maintain the balance of nature in the areas they inhabit. Then of course it's hard to find a more endearing species than the pandas. I want to spend a whole day at the Panda kindergarden just to watch and enjoy the pandas Actually if the animals can't survive it's just a matter of time when man will have difficulty surviving also

Answer 2

Firstly, you totally misunderstand Darwin... what you're saying is that if we can kill something, then there's no ethical reason to stop us. Darwin simply described a process by which species' change over generations to suit their environment by selective breeding. You should really read more about this theory if you're going to use it in conversation.

second, this should be obvious, but we rely on this planet to survive. When we change the conditions of the planet's water, or atmosphere, or biodiversity, we are making the planet less fit for us to live in. We evolved to suit the conditions of the earth. For the last few hundred years we have been changing those conditions much faster than we can evolve. Like the person said before about the bees, if you eradicate one species of animal, plant, fungus, bacteria or anything, you also hurt the other species that feed on it or otherwise use it. One extinction causes many others, and this changes the soil, the water, the atmosphere in millions of different ways.

Humans have no "supremacy". No other animal destroys the world it needs to keep it alive. No other animal kills its own kind in the numbers we do. Just because we can destoy the world doesnt make us smart. That we DO destroy the world makes us dumb.

Protecting biodiversity isnt about "saving" animals, its about not killing them.

Answer 3

The biosphere is impossible to completely understand. There are too many variables to compute. If we kill 'em all and let Darwin sort them out, there may be a species that we depend on effected, maybe even wiped out. If we do something that causes a localized extinction of bees, would you bat an eye? Maybe not. Even a global extinction of bees may not make headlines. After all, what do they do besides make honey and sting people, right? Less picnics would be ruined if we could just get that bee problem under control. Honey is a small price to pay for that. Except that bees are the primary pollinators for most flowered plants, including apples, oranges, tomatoes, some non-fruit trees, not to mention all the flowers of the world. The extinction of one species may lead to the extinction of a hundred more.

The Dodo's extinction led to the sudden extinction of a certain tree. Natural selection is ill-equipped for a force that is this fast-paced. We evolved in a world that is different from the world of tomorrow. Natural selection won't necessarily pass over Homo sapien sapien.

Answer 4

We are put here to be a guardian of the environment.That means we protect it,but we also use it .Try to strike a balance.Some species like the Calif. Condor,well,they've outlived their time,et. al. like you said.But some like the passenger pidgeon,were just hunted out,and that ain't right.So as stewards we need some laws because there are always dopes that will always ruin it for everyone else. F--- the Panda and the Red Chinese!Now pass me a steak....medium rare.

Answer 5

Diversity provides an opportunity for discovery. By maintaining bio-diversity we may find cures for a wide variety of human species sickness or disease. With genetic variety we improve the chances of survival by ensuring that no one plague or disease could decimate a singular species which potentially have negative chain reaction on us.

Answer 6

ur right
but human being r fighter
we have to fight evrything to maintain food chain
so if we r doing anything to survive panda or some other animal,it is indirectly helping ourselves.
so be a fighter or enviornmetalist.

Answer 7

We still have to try and do the right thing, especially since humans have screwed everything up out there.